French language still needs protection, Quebec Court of Appeal rulesA bid to overturn Quebec’s sign law by a group of anglophone merchants suffered another setback after the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld two lower court rulings which maintained that the French language is still vulnerable in Quebec and continues to need protection even though it has made “modest progress” in recent decades.

#MeToo: The importance of increased non-pecuniary damages for sexual abuseIn her column, Sandra Kovacs writes: “Civil sexual assault cases are challenging not only because the subject matter is emotionally taxing, but also because the client’s confidence in the justice system is already eroded — he or she approaches the litigation from a position of extreme reluctance, with an expectation of not being believed.”